Word: functioning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week when the news reached the Federation's President William Green, he looked sick and said I-told-you-so: "It was clearly evident from the beginning that this objective would be finally reached, that the C.I.O. would move on to the point where they would decide to function as a rival organization...
...long been a mainstay of American Record affiliates. Last January, in Hollywood, Mr. Mills began making his own records. Decca put out a feeler for Mills and his songs and artists, but before anything could be done, American had given Mr. Mills a new deal whereby he was to function as managing director of his own labels under American's wing...
Members of the Council discussed, with considerable activity, the proposed new policy of dividing future work of the Council into two definite groups. The first of these groups will include debates with many small college and local organizations. Also, radio debates will be scheduled. The function of the second group will be to handle the few major intercollegiate debates in such a way that these will be of increasing importance in the future...
...policy, as applied to the first group, will be to enable Council members to participate in more contests. As applied to the second group, the new policy will attempt to stress the importance of a few major debates, which will be prepared for an orderly fashion. The function, in part, of the Secretary for Public Information will be to stimulate undergraduate interest in intercollegiate debating...
Such reviews cannot drive tutoring schools to the wall, for they will not "spot" questions or feed students strained pap. That is not their purpose. But they can, if properly organized, perform an important and legitimate function--one sometimes provided by tutoring schools--that of crystallizing knowledge and remedying some of the notorious defects of Harvard's course instruction...